20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

The one who works his land
will have plenty of food,
but whoever chases fantasies
will have his fill of poverty.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,
but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

You will not go to all the hills
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

You, your sons, and your servants are to work the ground for him, and you are to bring in the crops so your master’s grandson will have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants.

The profit from the land is taken by all; the king is served by the field.

Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

He will settle disputes among many peoples
and provide arbitration for strong nations
that are far away.
They will beat their swords into plows,
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nation will not take up the sword against nation,
and they will never again train for war.

a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,

Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness?
Will it plow the valleys behind you?

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

The slacker does not plow during planting season;
at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

Do horses gallop on the cliffs;
does anyone plow there with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.